Rare and Valuable Books on Statistics and Mathematics
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Catalogue 3-2018 17 New Arrivals : Rare and Valuable Books on Statistics and Mathematics To access our website for more images, click on the author's name! Analytical mechanics: ........................................................................................................ 5 Arithmetics, Algebra: ....................................................................................... 4, 12, 14, 17 Geometry: ........................................................................................................... 11, 15, 16 Number and game theory: .......................................................................................... 2, 13 Computing: ........................................................................................................................ 8 General mathematics: ..................................................................................................... 10 Statistics: ............................................................................................................... 1, 3, 6, 7 Logarithms: ........................................................................................................................ 9 Milestones of Science Books phone +49 (0) 421 1754235 www.milestone-books.de . [email protected] Member of ILAB and VDA Catalogue 03-2018 Copyright © 2018 Milestones of Science Books. All rights reserved Page 2 of 18 One of the First Statistical Works of its Kind 1 DEPARCIEUX, Antoine. Essai sur les Probabilités de la Durée de la Vie Humaine; d’où l’on déduit la maniere de déterminer les Rentes viageres, tant simples qu’en Tontines: Précédé d’une courte Explication sur les Rentes à terme, ou Annuités… Paris: Guerin Bros., 1746. Finely engraved arms in vignette at head of dedication. 22 Tables in the text. vi, [2], 132, [32], i-xxii, [1] pp. [bound with]: IDEM. Addition a l’Essai sur les Probabilités de la Durée de la Vie humaine…avec quelques Listes ou Ordres de mortalité du genre humaine. Paris: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1760. [5], 5-32 pp., 1 folding table. [bound with]: (—). [Drop-title]: Objections faites à M. Deparceiux…sur son Livre des Probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine; avec les réponses à ces objections. 16 pp. Large 4to. [Paris: 1746]. Large 4to (258 x 192 mm), contemporary mottled calf, spine nicely gilt, red morocco lettering piece to spine, marbled endpapers, red edges (top cover hinge cracked but tight, corners bumped). Interior bright, clean and unfoxed, first and last blanks present. A beautiful, wide margined copy in fine condition, the prinicipal work printed on strong paper. (#001646) € 3,000 Coquelin et Guillaumin, I, p. 550 ; Einaudi, 1529 ; Garrison-Morton, 1691.1, Smith, History of Mathematics, II, p. 530; D.S.B., IV, pp. 38-39. - First editions, complete with the exceedingly rare Addition published fourteen years later, and very pretty copies of this notable works in the history of statistics bound together. Deparcieux (1703- 68), was a maker of sundials at Paris and the author of several other interesting mathematical works. “After long investigations of tontines, individual families, and religious communities, Deparcieux published his results in the famous Essai sur les probablités…, one of the first statistical works of its kind. It consists of treatises on annuities, mortality, and life annuities. Deparcieux showed a real progress in his theoretical explanation of the properties of the tables of mortality. His tables were for a long time the only ones on life expectancies in France,-“Deparcieux was the first to construct correct life tables.” Smith, History of Mathematics, II, p. 530. In prize binding of the Académie de Paris 2 GAUSS, Carl Friedrich. Recherches arithmétiques. Paris: Courcier, 1807. 4to (255 x 195 mm). xx, [2], 502 pp., including half-title and errata leaf. Contemporary prize binding in green calf, spine lettered in gilt, boards and spine with embossed decoration and gilt ruling, each board with a central gilt vignette of the Academy of Paris lettered "Prix du concours général", and gilt-decorated edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (rebacked with the original spine laid- down, little rubbing to boards and extremities, boards slightly stained and sun faded towards spine). Little browning and scattered foxing of text (half-title, title, preliminaries and final few leaves somewhat stronger), but otherwise quite crisp and clean. A few manuscript corrections in text. A very good, wide- margined copy. (#003096) € 2,200 FIRST FRENCH EDITION, and the first in a modern language, of the work which revolutionised number theory, and established Gauss as a mathematical genius. First published in Latin under the title Disquisitiones arithmeticae in Leipzig, 1801, this edition is dedicated to giant French mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace. The translation was done by Antoine Charles Marcelin Poullet-Delisle (1778-1849), professor of mathematics at the Lyceum of Orleans. Gauss, the son of a bricklayer, had actually discovered the theory of quadratic reciprocity, which both Euler and Legendre had failed to prove, at no more than 18 years of age. He also described the discovery of a method of inscribing in a circle a regular polygon of seventeen sides - the first Catalogue 03-2018 Copyright © 2018 Milestones of Science Books. All rights reserved Page 3 of 18 discovery of this kind in Euclidean geometry for over two thousand years. The book is divided into seven chapters: Des nombres congrus en général; Des congruences du premier degré; Des résidus des puissances; Des congruences du second degré; Des formes et des équations indéterminées du second degré, Applications des recherches précédentes, and Des équations qui déterminent les divisions du cercle. References: PMM 257; Dibner 114; Horblit 38; Norman 878 (all citing the original Latin edition). The exceptionally rare second printing 3 GRAUNT, John. Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality, with reference to the Government, Religion, Trade, Growth, Air, Diseases, and the several Changes of the said City, the Second Edition. London: John Martin & James Allestry, 1662. 4to (190 x 148 mm). [16], 79 [1] pp. Two folding tables. Bound in 19th- century plain vellum, spine titled in ink, marbled endpapers, several blank leaves bound in at end. Text browned mainly in outer margins, occasional minor spotting, title-page dust- soiled, with two larger stains near gutter (likely glue residues from removed stickers not affecting paper itself) and with lower corner somewhat rounded, extensive manuscript notes on first flyleaf. Provenance: American physician Huntington Williams (armorial bookplate to front pastedown and original sales receipt by Maggs Brow, dated 1st May 1922). Still a very good copy, collated & complete. (#003088) € 12,000 NLM/Krivatsy 4952 (imperfect); not in Wellcome; PMM 144 (1st edition); Norman 933 (1st edition); Goldsmiths' 1665; Kress 1155; Wing G1599A; ESTC R12046. - RARE SECOND EDITION, published in the same year of the first. Graunt's observations on the bills of mortality led to the publication of the first life table to be based on real mortality data. Designed to provide a warning against the plague epidemic, the bills of mortality did not give the age of death, but did provide the cause of death, and from this Graunt was able to estimate that 36% of all deaths concerned children under the age of six. Among the wide range of deaths listed in the Table of Casualty are the more common as well as Excessive drinking, Fainted in a Bath, Grief, Killed by several Accidents, Lethargy, Leprosie, Overlaid and starved at Nurse, and Suddenly (PMM). "Graunt was a friend of Sir William Petty. Some authorities attribute authorship of the above work to Petty. In his A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of Mortality by John Graunt, F.R.S, (1971) Geoffrey Keynes traces the interrelationship of these authors." (Garrison-Morton 1686). The second edition can be regarded even rarer than the first. According to Book Auction Records and rarebookhub no copy is recorded to have sold at auction in the past 50 years. 4 KIRCHER, Athanasius. Arithmologia, sive de abditis numerorum mysteriis qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditae. proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur. Rome: Varese, 1665. 4to (226 x 168 mm). [16], 301, [11] pp., including final blank, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 folding letterpress tables (one in red and black), full-page woodcut arms of dedicatee on verso of title-page, woodcut initials, tailpieces and illustrations. Two neat composite eclectic zodiacs in contemporary ink are bound at the end. Bound in contemporary vellum over wooden boards with the original clasps intact, boards ruled in blind, blue-dyed edges, spine with faint ink lettering (vellum cleaned, spine with horizontal split and minor chipping, glue residue from old label at foot of spine, light soiling and spotting of boards). Text crisp and clean, first gathering very little browned only, faint brown spotting to lower margin of 4 leaves, frontispiece trimmed close just touching plate frame at top, table III trimmed close at upper margin just into headline, lower torn corner of leaf O1 repaired, short tear in leaf Q2 without loss. A fine copy, stunningly crisp internally. (#002936) € 6,500 Catalogue 03-2018 Copyright © 2018 Milestones of Science Books. All rights reserved Page 4 of 18 Merrill 19;